Santiago-Ávila MA, Hernández-Daza M

Language: Spanish
References: 6
Page: 109-113
PDF size: 175.64 Kb.

ABSTRACT

Objective. Determine of case number registered per year both epidemiologic most important, beside of morbidity at children and adolescent in the same way, the comorbidity psychiatric.
Method. A retrospective study was done in child and adolescent inpatients at the Hospital Central Militar which undergo psychiatric consult. A descriptive statistical analysis was performed.
Results. A total of 36 patients were included. The most common disease was adaptation disorder. Psychiatric consultation was reported for 7% of the total pediatric population.
In the correlation of groups for age, the teenagers presented difference statistically in comparison with other groups of age. What means that more interconsultations are requested meaningfully to this group etareo (Rho Spearman = 0.273).
Conclusions. This investigation fixed the bases for establish a systematic and standard diagnostic and therapeutically boarding of pediatric patient.

REFERENCES

1. Lipowski ZJ. Consultation-liaison psychiatry at century’s end. Psychosomatics 1992; 33: 128-33.

2. Noyes R, Wise TN, Hayes JR. Consultation-liaison psychiatrists; how many are there and how are they funded? Psychosomatics 1992; 33: 123-7.

3. Lipowski ZJ. The interface of psychiatry and medicine: toward integrated health care. Can J Psychiatry 1987; 32: 743-8.

4. Ackerman AD, Lyons JS, Hammer JS, et al. The impact of coexisting depression and timing of psychiatric consultation on medical patients’ length of stay. Hosp Community Psychiatry 1998; 39: 173-6.

5. Ford CV, Fawzy FI, Frankel BL, et al. Fellowship training in consultation-liaison psychiatry. Psychosomatics 1994; 35: 118-24.

6. Wise TN, Ford CV. Subspecialization at the cross-roads. Psychosomatics 1991; 32: 121-3.